Roller Rolls Out the Bogus Renaissance Square Options
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/14/09 @ 2:15 pm - Filed Under Local Politics, Uncategorized
City Controller Pat Roller has now officially rolled out the bogus “other options” so she can continue the mayor’s meme that the only real choice is Renaissance Square:
Roller on Monday presented four other options considered for the Police Department: purchasing the Anthony Wayne Building for $5 million, plus $14 additional for renovations; several big-box commercial sites, which were checked out but were not in central downtown; a merger with county services in a new location, which was discarded because the city and county “could not meet mutually agreeable terms”; and constructing a new home for the Police Department, which would cost at least $22 million.
So what is the premium the city is willing to pay for being in “central downtown”? The current police station isn’t located downtown and it seems to being doing just fine. As I’ve said before there are numerous big box stores that could house the FWPD for millions less than the $14.5 million they are proposing to spend now.
Also, is nobody else curious as to why the county thinks they can build a new headquarters for the sheriff for $3.5 million but it would take the city $22 million to do the same? Granted the FWPD is probably larger but 6x larger? The truth is the city has not seriously considered any other option. They want to buy that building and they don’t give a damn how much taxpayer money they have to waste in the process. As the mayor himself said:
“Right now, the stars have aligned (for Renaissance Square)”
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